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David Botti
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Dec 14, 2007 03:06 PM
This is just a great video from CNN. A U.S. Army soldier back from Iraq wraps himself in a Christmas present box to surprise his two young daughters.
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David Botti
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Dec 14, 2007 02:02 PM
During my deployment to Iraq in 2003 I kept a journal thinking someday,
when I'm old and gray, I'd want to remember how things were back in the
summer of '03. One section of this journal was comprised of interviews
I did with Marines in my platoon over a period of two days. We'd been
in Iraq less than three weeks, and so far had not moved from our
initial position guarding a bridge in the middle of nowhere.
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interviews were not done for any journalistic purpose, but simply to
get a sense of what other people in my platoon were thinking. I've
posted excerpts below. One thing to keep in mind as you read them is
the diversity of answers. Some of them may sound crass, but that's just
the kind of black humor that gets you though the day. Also remember
that at the time the war was less than a month old.
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